swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a 'swiss designer gone NYC'.

Don’t Fear The Internet

Jessica Hische and Russ Maschmeyer are the masterminds behind Don’t Fear The Internet, a site that aims to teach basic HTML and CSS for non-web designers.

Through short tutorial videos, you’ll learn how to take a basic wordpress blog and manipulate the CSS, HTML (and even some PHP!) to match your aesthetic. You’ll feel empowered rather than crippled by the internet, and worst case scenario, you’ll at least end up having a better idea of how professional web designers turn your design dreams into a reality on screen.

Thanks for posting this – I’m not one to think I’d be a web designer after watching a few videos, but it is a vehicle to ease into a more diligent practice…

I am looking forward to use this to at least set up a skeleton of the websites I want to (have) designed and to know what are the right questions to ask any professional that may fully develop the sites…

For sure we don’t intend the site to generate a bunch of “now I’m a web designer” folks…in fact it says several times on the site that it is for people that don’t necessarily want to do web design professionally but want to stop bugging their web designer friends for help on personal blogs. Also, as the subhead dictates, it will be less of a design site and more of an introduction to front-end coding. Mostly, we want to make people aware of how websites work so when they have no-budget or personal jobs they can manipulate what’s out there themselves instead of screwing over web designers.

I love the concept of the site and will be watching the tutorials. I dont plan to become a Web Designer, but need to be self-sufficient in the simple things instead of paying for every minute detail that i need adjusted.